JOHN 3:16 - FOR GOD SO LOVES THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE

Romans 3 tells us that no one seeks God, not even one. Therefore humanities goose is cooked. Unless...of course...God makes a person alive in Christ, which then opens a person's eyes.

This is not complicated stuff and it's entirely written down in God's word.

 

SovereignGrace, you know my posting better then that to make such a claim of me. It is totally unwarranted and inappropriate.

God is love. He is not the opposite, nor can He be considered as displaying attributes of the fallen nature. The Scriptures use fallen attributes as a way of addressing in human terms a condition or comparison.

Throughout Scriptures, the attribute of the love of God is far beyond human kind. God does not condition His attributes according to situation, station, or by some fallen nature as do humankind.

Through such passages, the words are consistently used as comparison of value, not to be confused with the thinking of complete rejection and nothing to do with hate and despise that human emotions generate As ones who are fallen.

Corinthians thirteen must be rejected if the hate some assign to God is true.

Not a single judgment of God was not conditioned upon His love and His will, be it the cross or the lake of fire.

One further example, the psalms (85) record God as angry, yet in terms of lovingkindness. As a parent, you understand in part what God is in full.

The lovingkindness of God is on full display in eternity as He reveals where the redeemed and the heathen have a place prepared for them. But just be assured, not everyone will be happy. The fallen are never happy with God.

 

How can a blind man see?

You are struggling to make your connection and fighting against all of scripture to make it fit.

 

Works salvation devoid of grace. Not biblically supported.

 

You seem to have a faulty and non-biblical concept of love, which you are attempting to force on God.

 

How many of those Ninevites are in heaven? You are referencing an earthly sparing of God's judgment at an immediate point in time. Only 100 years later Nineveh was wiped out.

I am amazed at the ludicrous connections I see people attempting to make in order to cling to their own works for salvation.

 

If, the world, is universal in John 16, then God has utterly failed because very little of our world is convicted of sin. However, the correct understanding is that God will justly judge everyone of us and his judgment will convict us as being guilty and damned to hell. The entire world...including you and me. There is no other conclusion. We are at the mercy of a just and righteous judge. We need someone, outside of us, that is willing to Redeem us and choose to adopt us. Jesus is the only one who can do that and Jesus says that those whom the Father gives Him will come.

No matter what angle you take, God is the only one who can save you. You can beat yourself into submission with whips and chains as you try to atone for your own sins. You will forever miss the mark. Pray then that God chooses to be merciful and gracious to you, a sinner. You are at His mercy.

 

They died in their sins. It was just later than the first date. God relented for a season.
You are trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.

 

Nice of you to bring up this excellent passage on God's Sovereign choice to harden hearts. Let us look.

Notice that in the conversation some believed and others didn't. This was by ordination of God.

Now look at Paul's response to those whom God had hardened their hearts.
They CANNOT...
1) Comprehend
2)Hear
3) See
4) Understand
5) Turn to God

The very passage you quote proves your view to be utterly and hopelessly wrong.

Acts of the Apostles 28:23-27
[23]So a time was set, and on that day a large number of people came to Paul’s lodging. He explained and testified about the Kingdom of God and tried to persuade them about Jesus from the Scriptures. Using the law of Moses and the books of the prophets, he spoke to them from morning until evening.
[24]Some were persuaded by the things he said, but others did not believe.
[25]And after they had argued back and forth among themselves, they left with this final word from Paul: “The Holy Spirit was right when he said to your ancestors through Isaiah the prophet,
[26]‘Go and say to this people: When you hear what I say, you will not understand. When you see what I do, you will not comprehend.
[27]For the hearts of these people are hardened, and their ears cannot hear, and they have closed their eyes— so their eyes cannot see, and their ears cannot hear, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me and let me heal them.’

 

Not once is free will talked about in the Bible. Instead you see God graciously choosing to act from Genesis to Revelation. It is all God and not one speck of your utterly depraved being that saves you. You are completely at the good and gracious mercy of God. Any attempt to add human effort is an anathema to God's glory. You should be ashamed of your disrespect toward God.